Word: pens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Baker also has to herd the brood into shelter for the night; although chickens naturally seek the safety of the pen, turkeys demand extra guidance...
...These turkeys don't fly, so the only time they escaped was when the pigs broke into the pen and broke their fence," Baker says. Even when given the opportunity, she says, the turkeys didn't go nearly as far as the pigs...
...consideration for the remaining birds, the Bakers lead each day's victims far away from the turkey pen. "We don't like to do it within sight or sound of the other group," Baker says...
Instead of the pen, the Rose Garden; instead of the slaughterhouse, the petting zoo; instead of the death edict, the presidential pardon. For at least one turkey this Thanksgiving season, there really was reason to give thanks...
Still, it might not have been the Year of the Woman if it wasn't also the Year of the Vanishing Man. After a series of scandals left Congress looking like a holding pen for unindicted criminals, the men began to flee as fast as they could get their resumes updated: 53 Representatives retired or just declined to run again. Others, like New York's Stephen Solarz, found the ground shifting beneath their feet as redistricting removed their old constituencies. One way or another, an empty space opened up, and that great sucking sound, as Ross Perot might have...